Toy chime



R. e. REID.

TOY CHIME.

' I APPLlCATlON FILED OCT. I3, 1919. 7 1,335,855. Patented Apr. 6, 1920,

Fiyz/ I Fly 2 ROYAL G. REID, 0F BROOKLYN, NEVI YORK.

TOY CHIME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

Application filed October 1 3, 1919. Serial No. 330,254.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROYAL G. R1511), a citizen of the United States, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Toy Chimes, of which the follow-- m is a specification.

his invention relates to toy chimes and may be used for amusement or advertising purposes. Its objects are to provide a simple means for obtaining a continuous varlety of sounds or chime that is comparatively inexpensive and easily operated. These objects are obtained by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which, Figure 1, is a side view of the device with one of the covers removed showing the interior mechanism and Fig. 2 is a View at right angles to Fig. 1, with the covers shown in section.

This device, as shown, consists of a plurality of bell domes having different tones and a means for intermittently ringing either dome. The bell dome 11. is supported by the shaft 14 and to which the handle 13 is secured. This shaft is shouldered and has an extension 15 which supports the bell dome 12 by the upset end 16. On the extension a sleeve 17 is provided having an arm 18 formed integral with the oif-set 19 and the arm 20 which terminates in the weight 22. It will readily be understood from Fig. that a rotating motion applied to handle 13 will cause the weight 22 to rotate about the shaft 15 as a center, the arm 20 moving freely in the opening 21 between the bell domes as shown.

The escapement wheel 31 is securely keyed at 32 to shaft 15 and is therefore rigid with the handle 13. The escapement pawl 33 is pivoted at 34 to the arm 18 and thus rotates with the arm 20'about the center 15 of the escapement wheel. The rotation of arm 20 therefore gives a vibratory motion to pawl 33. On one end of this pawl the hammer 35 is secured by the off-set connection 38 and, on the other end the hammer 36 is secured by the off-set connection 37. This brings hammer 36 into the bell dome 12 and hammer 35 into the bell dome 11 and from the vibratory motion of the pawl each hammer alternately strikes its respective bell dome.

It is an element of my invention to make the bell domes of different tone so that the operation of the device will alternately give different notes. The preferable way of dogong 411 instead of a bell.

- ing this is to make the bell dome 11 thicker than bell dome 12, as indicated in Fig. 2. However, any of the well known methods of varying the tone may be used such as varying their shape, etc.

This device may be provided with more than two bells, for instance, a smaller bell dome may be placed within dome 11 on shaft 14. I have indicated a construction of this kind using, however a coil spring This is shown in an incomplete form in Fig. 1 where the back stroke of hammer 35 strikes the gong at a. The gong is secured to shaft 14 by the collar 42.

This illustrates and describes the principles of my invention which it is obvious may be applied in a variety of ways. I do not therefore wish to be limited to the construction here shown except as defined by the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a sound producing device of the class described, the combination of a plural ity of bells, an escapement, an arm arranged to revolve about the axis of said bells and means including said escapement for alternately ringing said bells by the revolution of said arm.

2. In a sound producing device of the class described, the combination of a plurality of bells of difi'erent tones, an escapement,

an arm arranged to revolve about the axis of said bells and means operated by said escapement for alternately ringing said bells by the revolution of said arn 3. In a sound producing device of the class described, the combination of a plurality of bells supported by a handle through their axis, an escapement, a weighted arm arranged to revolve about the axis of said handle and means operated by said escape-' axis of said handle, an escapement pawl secured to said arm and means for alternately ringing said bells by the revolution of said arm with relation to said handle 5. In a sound producing device of the class described, the combination of a plurality of bells supported by a handle, an escapement Wheel secured. to said handle, a weighted arm arranged to revolve about the axis of said handle, an escapeinent pawl secured to said arm having ofi set extensions at each end supporting a hammer and mean s for alternately ringing said bellsbv the revolution of said arm.

6. In a sound producing device of the class described, the combination of a plural ity of bells placed in spaced relation With their concave sides adjacent, a handle supsaid handle and through the space between said bells, an escapelnent pawl secured to said arm and means for alternately ringing said bells by the revolution of said arm with relation to said handle.

Signed at Ridgewood, in the county of Queens and State of New York this 3rd day of October, A. D. 1919. ROYAL G. REID. 

